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The official documentation has moved to http://docs.couchdb.org — The transition is not 100% complete, but http://docs.couchdb.org should be seen as having the latest info. In some cases, the wiki still has some more or older info on certain topics inside CouchDB.

There are pre-packaged binaries available from the main Apache CouchDB site for your convenience. This will always be the latest feature release of CouchDB.

The CouchDB project includes GNU autotools based scripts to build from source, which creates a self-extracting install package for Windows. The official release artefact is the signed tar.gz archive, and additionally, a signed binary is available also on the Apache Mirrors for convenience.

Dependencies

Current Versions

The latest release of CouchDB is always available from the offical CouchDB site. There are normally 2 versions of the installer, an R14B04 stable Erlang release, and a newer R15 or R16B based release with a newer Erlang/OTP runtime. There is no functional difference between these versions, however you may wish to integrate CouchDB with other Erlang modules that are not yet compatible with the latest OTP release.